For information on submitting an obituary, please contact Reading Eagle by phone at 610-371-5018, or email at obituaries@readingeagle.com or fax at 610-371-5193.
Most obituaries published in the Reading Eagle are submitted through funeral homes and cremation services, but we will accept submissions from families. Obituaries can be emailed to obituaries@readingeagle.com.
In addition to the text of the obituary, any photographs that you wish to include can be attached to this email. Please put the text of the obituary in a Word document, a Google document or in the body of the email. The Reading Eagle also requires a way to verify the death, so please include either the phone number of the funeral home or cremation service that is in charge of the deceased’s care or a photo of his/her death certificate. We also request that your full name, phone number and address are all included in this email.
All payments by families must be made with a credit card. We will send a proof of the completed obituary before we require payment. The obituary cannot run, however, until we receive payment in full.
Obituaries can be submitted for any future date, but they must be received no later than 3:00 p.m. the day prior to its running for it to be published.
Please call the obituary desk, at 610-371-5018, for information on pricing.
As the father of a 12-year-old daughter, headlines about teens confiding in chatbots and spending increasing time online keep me up at night. If parents’ tragic accounts of AI sexually propositioning kids and even encouraging suicidal thoughts make one thing clear, it’s that seemingly harmless apps like Character.AI, rated 12+ in the App Store, can inflict serious damage.
Congress cannot stand by while our sons and daughters fall victim to an online ecosystem designed to exploit them. Lawmakers can stop this sickness from the source by supporting the App Store Accountability Act — a commonsense child safety bill designed to help parents make informed choices about the content their kids can access online.
This practical proposal would require app stores to ask for a parent’s approval before children can download apps. It would ensure app stores and developers across the board have consistent and accurate age ratings, reforming the current developer self-rating system that incentivizes app makers to downplay risks and mislead parents.
With our kids’ mental and physical health and wellbeing at stake, Pennsylvania’s elected leaders must work to pass the App Store Accountability Act this session. Families like mine are counting on Congress to act before the next tragedy strikes.
Brett Rudloff
Orwigsburg